Sometimes, game leaks are dramatic, unpleasant things—like the disturbing Insomniac hacks that happened late last year, revealing developer's private information due to a ransomware group. More often than not, however, they occur for simple, hindsight-stupid reasons, as recently-leaked documents from Google reveal.
A recent report by 404Media states that Google—which has owned YouTube since it bought the site in 2006—experienced a dearth of privacy hiccups from "2013 to 2018". The site obtained a copy of an "internal database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and security issues." Google's later statement provided to 404Media implies that the database was indeed accurate.
